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[Igor BEGHETTO]

Captain J.T. Kirk (... and you all), I ask the permission to get on 
board, please. ;-)

IgorBeg

Il 07/12/2018 1.07, Phyllis Smith ha scritto:
> Because this covers a couple of BugTracker issues, I thought it best 
> to email a summary.
>
> 1) Adjustable size for thumbnails in Resources window for Media, 
> Proxy, and Clips via Settings->Preferences, Appearance tab, Layout 
> section right hand side.  Defaults are as what has been in effect.  
> View thumbnail, bigger number = bigger thumbnail.  Vicon memory size = 
> how much memory to use for each vicon -- this helps solve the 
> pixelization when making the thumbnails bigger but takes more memory. 
> Vicon color mode = low, medium, or high - also takes more memory.
>
> 2) Wheel mode to temporarily make preview thumbnail bigger.  This is 
> nice and we did not even know you could do this in the browser.  You 
> only use this in preview mode - wheel the middle mouse button up or 
> down after you click on the thumbnail and get into preview mode.  Once 
> in that mode, you can either wheel on the thumbnail itself or the preview.
>
> 3) Clips now also have a preview mode, but only a still image instead 
> of the 5 second play.
>
> 4) 2 bugs in Proxy Resources window display were fixed where the 
> thumbnails were just plain crazy.  Part of the craziness occurred when 
> the media had more than 1 proxy type - that is a proxied mp4 and a 
> proxied webm, for example.
>
> 5) The drag select white bar highlight was not always correctly 
> highlighting.  This was a bug we discovered while looking into a 
> solution for issue #7 (which is scheduled to have work start on some 
> of it tomorrow).
>
> 6) Inter-View mode - This is the EXCITING NEW FEATURE prompted by 
> Pierre's request.  We were dubious at first, but now think it is a 
> very useful function for more than 1 reason.  A short how to is next.
>
> - do your editing as usual
> - make sure you are in Preview mode in the Resources window; that is 
> the right facing green colored arrow to the left of the word Search 
> which is surrounded by a gold color when enabled.
> - middle mouse click on a thumbnail in the Resources window and a 
> popup occurs of that media with a white colored bar at the top and a 
> red colored bar at the bottom
>
> The bars represent the presence or absence (the black sections) of 
> where that media is used on the timeline.  Here are the buttons:
> - click on the top white or black spaces in the top bar, and in the 
> Viewer, the In/Out [/] pointers will show location of that edit
> - click on the bottom red or black space in the bottom bar, and in the 
> timeline and composer the position will change AND you can even drag 
> on this line and it will correspondingly update the position in the 
> timeline
> - Ctrl-click on the bottom bar and the timeline and composer are 
> re-positioned to the beginning of that section
>
> NOTE to Pierre, point #2 in your latest Issue #5 is not feasible 
> because the timeline and the composer should be at the same place to 
> ensure that an insert or delete occur in the right place.
>
> -Shift-click on the bottom bar and a "selection" is made of that 
> section and the composer is updated with that start position
>
> NOTE to Pierre, switching #1 and #3 as in issue #5 note would make 
> this inconsistent with "shift-click" as already designated in the 
> timeline as selecting/highlighting a section.  I hope this makes sense 
> to you.
>
> NOTE to IgorBeg, I hope you come up with a demonstration of this to 
> put on datafilehost so other users can see it.  See:
> https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/download/testing/cinelerra-5.1-ub16-x86_64-static.txz
> https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/download/testing/cinelerra-5.1-mint18-x86_64-static.txz